A reconstruction, in words and pictures, of the Allied air campaign against Nazi Germany during World War II. It documents the Anglo-American day-night bombing offensive, with contemporary photographs and interviews of those who took part.
Jack Currie Bücher
Jack Currie war ein britischer Autor, dessen Werke sich auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg konzentrierten. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er im Zivilschutz und wurde ein produktiver Schriftsteller, der zur historischen Aufzeichnung des Konflikts beitrug. Seine Schriften befassten sich mit den Komplexitäten des Krieges, oft aus der Perspektive derer, die ihn direkt erlebten. Er erforschte Themen wie Mut, Kameradschaft und Widerstandsfähigkeit angesichts von Widrigkeiten. Currie's literarischer Beitrag liegt in seiner Fähigkeit, historische Ereignisse durch fesselnde Erzählungen zum Leben zu erwecken.
More so than even the sea, the world of aviation has spawned an amazing store of tales of ghosts, the supernatural and inexplicable events, ghostly bombers and phantom aircrew on long-deserted airfields, prophetic warnings from beyond the grave, restless spirits apparently drawn back to places from which they flew. This book looks in dispassionate detail at many of these stories. More than just repeating well-worn legends and myths, Echoes in the Air relates the background to these ghostly tales, based on eye-witness accounts and historical facts. The Montrose ghost, the haunted watch tower at East Kirby and the messages from the doomed R101 crew are all investigated. So too are the specters of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, the phantom Polish airman at Lindholme, the North Weald ghosts, and stories from the author's own experiences as a WWII bomber pilot. The book is illustrated throughout with historical material, and specially commissioned photographs taken at the haunted airfields themselves. Reprinted, the final work from the renowned aviation author Jack Currie, Echoes in the Air is set to become the classic collection of aviation ghost stories.
Convoy
Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1945
Without the merchant navies of Britain, Cana da and the USA the British would not have survived even a fe w weeks of war. In words and pictures this book honours the mariners who faced danger day after day to bring essential s upplies to Britain. '
This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid on May 3, 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France, part of the softening up process on German military targets, in preparation for the D-Day landings. Raids like this over occupied France were considered relatively low risk affairs and only counted for one third of a mission for the crews concerned. In total, 362 RAF bombers, Lancasters, Mosquitoes and Halifax, from bases in England took part in a raid and although no-one involved anticipated disaster, 42 Lancasters never returned home. Almost incredibly, those who planned the attack were apparently unaware that four German night fighter bases were located nearby. Luftwaffe fighters wreaked havoc on the bombers as they circled a marker in bright moonlight awaiting the order to attack their target. This is the story of that battle, bitterly contested and ever-remembered by those who were engaged, one among hundreds that were fought in the skies over Europe between the RAF's bombers and the Luftwaffe's night-fighters in the course of World War II. It lasted less than 60 minutes but cost 255 lives.